Powers/Abilities: Garrett has been
rebuilt with cybernetic parts so that virtually nothing of his
original body exists beyond his head and a few organs (less than
20% of his original form). He has plastic skin and metal alloys
in his bones, which were later replaced with polycarbonates, granting him extraordinary physical resilience. His
muscular system, featuring a combination of pneumatics,
hydraulics, and internally generated, electrical power, grants
him vastly amplified strength (enhanced human? or greater)

He is highly skilled in
armed and unarmed combat, demonstrating superlative physical
skill and tactical ingenuity. He is an excellent marksman, and
unusually adept with S.H.I.E.L.D. technology. He is also arrogant and
offensive, and pays little attention to standard procedures or to
personal hygiene.

His mental faculties were damaged by an
extended period of mind control by Elektra, though he seems to
have recovered to some degree.

Height: 6' 4"Weight: 645 lbs.Eyes: BrownHair: Brown

History:

(Secret Warriors#9 (fb) - BTS) - Garrett worked for the CIA and went through special covert training.

(Secret Warriors#25 (fb) ) - In 1961 Leonardo Da Vinci invited Garrett because he was one of the top intelligence agents of his generation to the Pieta base in Rome, Italy to become a member of the Great Wheel. Leonardo offered everyone at the meeting the chance to get what they needed to win their quiet wars in exchange for a little help, which would in return win them Leonardo's approval.

Leonardo sent Dassaiev, Garrett, Soma and Whitehall on a mission to Giza, Egypt to acquire a power source from a Brood vessel after destroying the alien Brood still inside. Garrett approved of using the Brood power source to run the rejuvination chambers found by another team. He was present when the chambers were set up in Pieta and stolen by the Russians Uvarov, Dassaiev and their soldiers. They nearly murdered Garrett.

(Elektra: Assassin#6 (fb)) - Garrett was
serving in Libya alongside agent Chastity McBryde, impressing her
with his combat skills. However, when he got frisky with her, she
punched him in the nose.

(Elektra: Assassin#6 (fb) - BTS) - Chastity
discovered that there were no records on Garrett. When she
brought this to the attention of ExTechOp, she not only received
no reply, but was also swiftly transferred to a minor police
action in Venezuela. She filed a complaint to Nick Fury which was
never delivered. During an imposed furlough, two months later,
Chastity continued her investigation, using S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Central
Command Computer Facility and cross-referencing law enforcement
records from seven states.

(Elektra: Assassin#2 (fb) - BTS) - Garrett was
rebuilt as a cyborg, with a six inch removable portion on the top
of his skull, in which could be placed a recorder, and a
cybernetic right hand.

(Elektra: Assassin#3 (fb))
- Approximately three years after his Libyan mission alongside Chastity, Garrett and his partner were sent to San Concepcion as part of
Operation: Scrambled Eggs, to investigate the assassination of
presidente Carlos Huevos.

(Elektra: Assassin#2(fb)/3(fb)/[6(fb)]) -
Garrett and Perry interrogated Julio Gonzales (actually, Perry
tortured him for information), who confessed to hiring a woman to
kill Huevos, after which Perry killed him. Afterwards, Garrett
and Perry interrogated a political prisoner, who informed them of
his encounter with Elektra. While researching Elektra's past,
Garrett became a victim of a psychic link with her, and she began
to influence his perceptions and manipulate his actions. Elektra
directed him to purge all of the evidence he had gathered, after
which she slew Perry, who had come after her. When Garrett
confronted Elektra, she cut off his hand, and while he was
looking for it, she blew up the munitions shipment in harbor
building in which they were standing.

Garrett's body was recovered
by ExTechOp, who began to replace his multitude of missing body
parts (eighty per cent of his body, including his limbs and most
of his vital organs) with cybernetic ones. Working tirelessly,
S.H.I.E.L.D. engineers successfully replaced his arms, legs, spine,
nervous system, heart, liver, and lungs. Elektra slipped in and
stole the recorder implant that S.H.I.E.L.D. had retrieved from
Garrett's skull.

(Elektra: Assassin#3) - Hours later, as Elektra
raided S.H.I.E.L.D.'s information bank, she was discovered and captured
by a squadron of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Garrett, now completely rebuilt
and active, filed his report on Elektra, pretending not to know
her identity and claiming that she was a Russian agent. His story
was not believed and he was reprimanded by his superior, Dr.
Beaker. That night, Elektra sunk her psychic claws into Garrett's
mind, causing him to sneak into the chamber where she was being
held inert. He attempted to break free from her control and kill
her, but she forced him to shut down the power in the device
holding her. Elektra then escaped, leaving Garrett behind to face
the music. He then filed a false report to cover up his
involvement.

Mostly back in his own mind
at this point, Garrett recalled that Elektra would be going after
ambassador Reich (who, unbeknownst to anyone else, was possessed
by the demonic Beast that controlled the Hand). Elektra knew that
Garrett intended to stop her, and she sent him on a wild goose
chase while she successfully accomplished her mission. However,
Reich had already transferred the Beast into Ken Wind, a strong
candidate for president of the USA.

Later, Garrett prepared to
return to the US, Elektra stole his plane ticket and framed him
so that anxious airport security would discover a bag of drugs
during a body cavity search.

(Elektra: Assassin#4) - Garrett returned to the
US where he was subjected to rigorous testing before being
brought before Nick Fury, who told him he found his reports
unlikely and insisted he redo them more factually or find a way
to back up his outrageous claims. Garrett was sent to meet with
Ken Wind and offer him protection, but due to his interactions
with Elektra, he was able to detect the stench of the Beast upon
Wind. At the same time, Elektra had used her psychic tricks to
swap forms and minds with a young girl named Sandy. However, the
Hand learned of this and trapped Elektra within Sandy's
personality. They attempted to lead Elektra to a location where
they could kill her, but Garrett rushed to her rescue, fighting
off his own allies, agents Honda and Minelli. Garrett
successfully saved Elektra, though in the process agents of the
Hand framed him for the deaths of his partners. Garrett actually
opposed the Beast itself and nearly died after having his hand
blown off, but Elektra saved him.

(Elektra: Assassin#5) - Garrett and
Elekta fought off assassins for the Hand, after which they were
confronted by a group of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents led by Chastity McBride.
He revealed the truth about being under psychic domination by a
ninja assassin with magic powers (with a body almost as good as
Chastity's) who needs to kill Ken Wind because he's possessed by
a demon, but for some reason she doubted him. Garrett was knocked
out when Chastity twice hit Elektra's and his helicopter (lethal
force had been denied by Nick Fury), but Elektra mentally forced
him to awaken, and he leapt to safety, taking Elektra with him
and S.H.I.E.L.D.ing her body from the fall with his own durable form.
Struggling to free himself from Elektra's control, Garrett shot
Elektra in the chest, only to realize that Elektra had caused a
mass hallucination that only made it appear so: He had actually
shot Chastity.

Nonetheless, S.H.I.E.L.D. believed
it was Elektra who had been shot as well, and they took her and
Garrett back to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base for treatment. After Garrett had
been rebuilt, Elektra absconded with him, and she allowed her
illusion to fade soon after. Garrett finally stopped resisting
Elektra and accepted that he was hers, body and soul.

(Elektra: Assassin#6) - Garrett and Elektra
recovered and then prepared for their assault on Ken Wind.

(Elektra: Assassin#7) - Garrett was nearby
while Elektra communed with the Beast of the Hand, and he learned
of the Beast's plot to annihilate all life on Earth by having the
US presdent launch a nuclear missile attack. At the victory rally
for Ken Wind's election, Garrett posed as an ice cream vendor,
while Elektra hid out in the shadows, waiting for a chance to
assassinate Wind.

(Elektra: Assassin#8 (fb)) - Garrett's cyborg
systems were identified by Chastity McBryde, who led a group of
agents to converge on him. Elektra took out some of the agents,
but was then attacked by Hand assassins. Garrett pulled a rocket
launcher out from his ice cream stand and fired at Wind, but
McBryde shot him in the shoulder, deflecting the shot. In the
chaos, Wind was placed in an escape module and airlifted out,
though Elektra and Garrett snagged the copter. Garrett and
Elektra were assaulted by the rebuilt and Hand-controlled Perry
and the evil Chuck the Dwarf, who impaled Garrett with a spear.
Garrett hurled a string of grenades into the copter carrying
Wind, and the explosion caused it to crash into the Lincoln
Memorial (striking Perry and bringing him along for the ride in
the process). Garrett crawled from the wreckage and rushed at
Wind, but Perry stopped him and the proceeded to batter him
mercilessly, dismantling and dismembering him.

Elektra managed to destroy
Perry and drive the Beast from Wind. Elektra then appeared to
transfer Garrett's mind into Wind's body, and Garrett/Wind became
the new president of the USA.

(Daredevil I#319 (fb) - BTS / 321 (fb) - BTS) -
Elektra actually just used her hypnotic abilities to make Garrett
believe that he was Wind and living the life of the president. In
reality, Garrett remained in his dismantled form, which was
placed in a stasis tube in a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility.

(Elektra: Assassin#8) - Trapped in the delusion
that he had actually been the president of the USA for the past
four months, Garrett believed he was meeting with a Russian
leader.

(Daredevil I#319) - Garrett was seen in stasis
at S.H.I.E.L.D. substation 14 storage, while he still believed himself
to be the president.

(Daredevil I#320) - Agents of the Snakeroot
assaulted the S.H.I.E.L.D. substation, and Tekagi broke Garrett out of
the stasis tube and escaping with him.

(Daredevil I#321) - In the stronghold of the
Snakeroot, Tekagi revealed that since Garrett and Elektra had
merged on the plane of the mind, a fragment of her persona still
existed within Garrett's mind. Tekagi detailed the plan to draw
out the dark essence of Elektra from Garrett's mind, and place it
into a new warrior to serve the Snakeroot, and the shadow
warriors initiated the process.

(Daredevil I#322) - The Snakeroot continued the
process, transferring the dark essence of Elektra from Garrett's
mind into a female corpse, which was reanimated as Erynys. At the
same time, other technicians continued the process of rebuilding
Garrett.

(Daredevil I#323) - The completed Garrett and
Erynys stood before the Snakeroot. Garrett insulted Eddie Pasim (who
was involved with the About Face virus which the Hand would seek
to make the existence of Erynys permanent), after which Erynys
commanded him to silence. Garrett thought to himself that he was
all better now, and also that he though Erynys wanted him.

(Daredevil I#324) - Garrett and Erynys
assaulted Daredevil and the Chaste member Stone. Garrett
continued to confuse Erynys for Elektra. When the real Elektra
showed up, it pained both Erynys and Garrett, and Garrett
followed Erynys' command to flee.

(Daredevil I#325) - Garrett and Erynys
accompanied the Snakeroot and the Hand as they tried to force
Passim to relocate the missing sample of the About Face virus.
Garrett defended Erynys when the Snakeroot criticized her failure
to kill Daredevil, and Garrett defended her.
Garrett and Erynys were also present alongside
the Snakeroot when they confronted Daredevil and Elektra, who had
located the virus. Garrett was severely confused by the presence
of both Erynys and Elektra. Ultimately, Erynys' persona was
merged with Elektra when the former died. Garrett was captured
and placed in S.H.I.E.L.D. detention cell 07, where he demanded to be
given a copy of this month's "Soldier of Fortune."

(Daredevil I#326) - Aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, Fury
questioned Garrett, who convinced him that he should be given credit for what he
had done for his country, regardless of how he had gone about it.

(Daredevil I#330) - Nick Fury had Garrett
reactivated as an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. under his command, and sent the
cyber-warrior Siege to watch over him and make sure he towed the
line.

(Daredevil I#341) - Garrett attempted to apply
for unemployment. He had left past employment empty, and when he
began to talk about S.H.I.E.L.D. they thought he was lying and kicked
him out.

(Daredevil I#342) - Garrett kicked down the
door at Karen Page's apartment and used his laser-optic sighting
to kill several cockroaches--all part of his way as demonstrating
his credentials to Karen, who had placed an advertisement for a
private investigator to help her uncover a child pornography ring.

(Secret Warriors#7 (fb) - BTS) - Garrett stopped drinking and moved to Toronto, Canada and opened Natchios' Total Car Pit. He worked under the supervision of another former SHIELD agent.

(Secret Warriors#7) - Fury visited Garrett and called him out of retirement.

(Secret Warriors#8) - Fury and Garrett traveled to Alexandria, Virginia. Arriving there they had a coffee and Fury showed Garrett the file of ex-SHIELD agent Seth Waters, who was now working for the Department of Treasury, and was allegedly a double agent. Fury sent Garrett to Waters to find out if he was working for Hydra or someone else entirely.

(Secret Warriors#9) - Garrett went into the US Department of Treasury to talk to Waters, who was impressed that Garrett didn't set off any of the metal detectors. Garrett explained that he was almost completely made of polycarbonates these days. Waters revealed that he knew about the Pieta and then sent Garrett back to Fury to tell him that Waters' masters know everything and are everywhere (for those interested: Waters worked for Leviathan). Garrett returned to Fury, who considered the investigation as a success.

(Dark Reign: The List - Secret Warriors#1) - Garrett flew Fury to Avengers Tower with one of SHIELD's flying cars. Fury told Norman Osborn about Seth Waters and that he was a national security issue resulting in Waters capture by HAMMER. Bullseye interrogated Waters and Garrett, who stayed in contact with Fury shot Waters with a sniper rifle from the flying car as soon as Waters mentioned that he was working for Leviathan. Fury, who stayed with Osborn to watch the interrogation, fled while Garrett shot HAMMER agents to free Fury's path. Garrett picked up Fury, who took the wheel, while Garrett kept shooting at HAMMER's helicopters.

Fury and Garrett traveled to Rome, Italy to the Pieta base where they logged into the system to look at the files of Leviathan and the Great Wheel.

(Secret Warriors#16) - At the Pieta base Fury discussed with Dum-Dum, Garrett and the Professor to discuss their next actions against Hydra and Leviathan. Garrett told Fury not to hesitate because now was the time to end the other organizations.

(Secret Warriors#17 (fb) ) - Garrett traveled to Sudan where he met many former Howling Commandos, Steve Rogers, Fury and Sharon Carter at Fury's Sandbox base for one last party together.

(Secret Warriors#18 (fb) ) - Garrett listened to the Howlers stories and had a good laugh.

(Secret Warriors#23 (fb) ) - After being fired from the Secret Warriors Sebastian Druid returned home to Hawaii. John Garrett was already waiting in his apartment to tell Druid that there was no out. Under Garrett Druid got into good shape and then was allowed to prove himself on the field.

Garrett took Druid to China to use magic to make two destroyed Helicarriers from a recent battle with Hydra disappear. Druid used his mystic powers to speed up the Helicarriers' corrosion and oxidation. Garrett was impressed, but still wanted to know how Druid worked under pressure.

Garrett next took Druid to Leviathan's Ursa Major base. Garrett had Druid create a mystic bullet, which Garrett used to shoot Magadan. The mystic component of the bullet sprayed Magadan's blood in Hydra's sign on the wall behind him to sow dissention between Hydra and Leviathan. Leviathan went after Garrett and Druid, who was unable to teleport them to safety under pressure. They still managed to escape.

Sometime later Garrett and Druid flew Hydra's Gehenna base to pick up Nick Fury and the Secret Warriors, who were surprised to see Druid again.

At Fury's Excalibur base Garrett told Druid that Hellfire and Phobos had died and that Quake would learn from Fury that Hellfire had been a traitor all along. Fury then informed Garrett that the team would be broken up. Garrett congratulated Druid for his hard work and that told him that his team had now been deactivated.

(Secret Warriors#28) - Garrett and Fury waited in a limousine to pick up Dugan and Sitwell at the UN White Box Facility.

Shortly after Garrett rejoined SHIELD under Quake's leadership.

Comments: Created by Frank Miller and
Bill Sienkiewicz.

We can actually nail down when some of the events of
Elektra: Assassin took place thanks to George Olshevksy's Avengers Index#3. In
that issue, he discusses Avengers I#61, and notes that some freak weather
conditions, such as the abnormally premature snowstorms seen in Elektra:
Assassin, were caused by the battle between Ymir and Surtur in Avengers I#61, as
well as by the events of Incredible Hulk I#109-110 (in which a large machine
that affected the Earth's rotation existed in the Savage Land--this machine was
the Planet-Destroyer, which was a weapon of the Sagittarians, used in the
service of the Galaxy Master. It is seen in the profile for
Umbu the Unliving).
Thus, some of the events of Elektra: Assassin took place around the time of
other stories with premature snowstorms, such as Amazing Spider-Man I#85,
Incredible Hulk I#115, and Daredevil I#52-53. These premature snowstorms came
ever now and then during a period of two or three months following the events of
Avengers I#61.
Further, Avengers I#61 took place towards the end of the third week of
September of Peter Parker's sophomore year in college. So, we can nail things
down ever further.
--Per Degaton

Huevos is Spanish for eggs, I believe.
Scrambled Eggs. Get it? Sort of? Good, because there's not much
more to get.

Garrett was first listed as a member of the Great Wheel in Dark Reign: The List - Secret Warriors#1 (December, 2009)

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to:

GARRET - @ 3500 bc,
pre-dynastic Egyptian wizard, merged soul with Dann to
form the Ruby Scarab, which they used to drive off the
Elementals--Supernatural Thrillers#8